CVE-2006-5824

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-09 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the ffs_rdextattr function in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted UFS filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5679. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.

Affected products

FreeBSD: 6.1

References

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-08-11-2006.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30144
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-08-11-2006.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30144

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